FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. – University of South Alabama senior defensive end Sean Grayer is a candidate for the Wuerffel Trophy after the organization released its 2018 Watch List on Thursday.

Known as "College Football's Premier Award for Community Service," the Wuerffel Trophy is presented annually at the All Sports Association's Awards Banquet in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.  Named after 1996 Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Danny Wuerffel from the University of Florida, the Wuerffel Trophy is awarded to the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision player that best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement.

It's the second award the resident of Green Cove Springs, Fla., is under consideration for this fall as he is also a candidate for the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team®.

Grayer's community service efforts since coming to South include volunteering three times at the Wilmer Hall Children's Home pancake breakfast fundraiser and twice at both local Special Olympics meets and USA's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Dodge Ball Tournament.  A member of Campus Outreach since he was a freshman, he has contributed to the Jaguar football team's Thanksgiving dinner donation as well.

A two-year starter at defensive end for the Jaguars, Grayer has posted 43 tackles in his career with that total including four stops for loss with 1½ sacks.  Last fall, he recorded 20 total stops — a career-high figure — with an interception and a blocked field goal that led to a touchdown in the team's shutout victory over Alabama A&M in the opening month of the season.  Grayer equaled a career-best with three tackles highlighted by one for a four-year loss to help South defeat Troy in the annual "Battle For The Belt," and after collecting two stops including a sack and picking off a pass in a victory over Arkansas State on Senior Day he received the coaches' defensive line award.

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